At the last Tarot meeting, Odis made a deal with "Little Sun" Derrick: Odis would help Derrick "find" information about Amon, and Derrick would provide "The Hermit" with some creatures and soil from the "Forsaken Land".
Odis then thought: After the incident with Amon's clone, Derrick seemed to have been monitored, right? Under such surveillance, how dare he still offer a sacrifice to the "Fool"?
But then he thought again: I remember now, at the beginning, Derrick didn't realize he was being monitored, so he just kept offering sacrifices and praying as he was supposed to.
Odis smiled. Of course, he wouldn't remind Derrick, because he was still "unaware" that the "sun" had been "parasitized" by Amon's clone.
Odis then used the "teleportation array" in the basement to return to the suburban laboratory.
He planned to dispose of the creatures' corpses and temporarily store them in this laboratory.
After preparing a simple altar, Odis prayed to the "Fool" and performed the bestowal ceremony.
A phantom gate opened above the altar, revealing four strange creatures and a clump of silt and soil.
Just as Odis was about to praise Mr. Fool, she suddenly saw a gaping maw. The strange fish, as thick as an adult's thigh and over a meter long, raised its head and bit Odis.
Odis hurriedly dodged, both amused and exasperated: "Alive!"
The "Little Sun" actually captured these creatures alive and sacrificed them to the "Fool"!
...
Above the gray fog, Klein, seated at the head of the bronze table, watched the flustered "Hermit" with a slight smile on his lips.
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In the laboratory in the suburbs, Odis dodged the giant mouth, picked up the sword in the corner, and stabbed it into the body of the "monster fish." At the same time, he injected spiritual energy and immediately discharged electricity, continuously discharging it until the monster was paralyzed on the ground.
Odis had used this sword before at Capin's villa. Although he carried it with him, he had never used it. In the morning, when Odis was tidying up the laboratory, he casually put it in the corner.
Fortunately, this weapon was placed here, otherwise it would have been really difficult to deal with this "strange fish".
Then he saw six large leech-like creatures crawling out of the altar and outwards.
Odis quickly picked up tweezers and a glass bottle, put them into the bottle one by one, and then found a sharp knife to kill the "strange fish" and preserve its black blood.
Finally, Odis looked at the plant with dark green leaves on the altar, its eight tentacle-like vines slowly stretching towards him.
Odis found a large pair of scissors, carefully bypassed the slow-moving "tentacles," and went to the altar to cut off each of them.
These vines, covered in suckers and barbs, actually twitched on the ground for a long time before finally coming to a stop, just like tentacles.
Odis found a large glass jar, put the plant's roots inside, and then found another large glass jar to put the "tentacles" together.
After dealing with these dangerous creatures, Odis went to look at the two green plants that looked somewhat like wheat.
This is black-faced grass. It is said that its leaves turn black when it matures. It is the only thing that looks normal and is close to what Odis knew.
However, these black-faced grasses are rapidly withering after leaving Silver City.
Odis put it away in a container, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. For a moment, he didn't know whether to say that "Little Sun" was too practical or that he hadn't thought things through.
He could roughly guess "Little Sun's" thoughts: since "Hermit" was to be used for experiments, it must be used alive.
So the "Little Sun" spent a lot of effort to sacrifice these creatures alive to the "Fool".
The most infuriating thing is that the "Fool" didn't even bother to give a warning!
But soon, Odis understood what "Fool" Klein was thinking: how could a mysterious and great being care about such a trivial matter? Besides, these monsters were perfectly capable of being handled by "Hermits," so there was no need to remind him.
Thinking of this, Odis smiled helplessly: What was that saying again? Oh right, in the end, I had to bear it all alone!
Lost in thought, Odis tidied up the laboratory. After confirming that the creatures could not escape the glass jars, he returned to the herbalist shop to continue writing "The Manual of Combat".
He planned to make observation records first, and then study these organisms.
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On Saturday morning, Odis traveled directly from her home by carriage to 77 Hilton Avenue.
As usual, I put on the "leader's" mask and a hooded cloak, and used the "teleportation array" in the basement to arrive at the meeting place of the Mysticism Research Association.
Several members of the Mysticism Research Society had arrived by then, and they all paid their respects to the "leader".
Among these members was Hugh Deercha. After seeing the "leader," she began to ponder how to obtain information about the Capin case.
At exactly nine o'clock, Odis announced, "Let's begin."
The "hound," whose physique and clothing were unremarkable, was the first to rise: "'Chief,' please accept my salute!"
He gave a proper military salute before continuing, "I've been thinking about this for days and still can't figure it out. How did you realize that the wealthy businessman Blair was being controlled by the 'Rose School'?"
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
These words immediately caused a huge uproar in the meeting room: "What? The wealthy businessman Blair has been controlled by the 'Rose School'?"
Who is Blair?
"You forgot? At last week's party, someone heard that Blair was going to hire an extraordinary person to conduct a mystical experiment."
"..."
Because Blair's case did not appear in the newspapers, and "Mechanical Heart" only informed other official Extraordinary organizations, most people here were unaware of the changes that had occurred at the wealthy businessman Blair's villa.
Hugh recalled that someone had indeed posted a request from businessman Blair at the last gathering.
But... how did it get involved with the "Rose School"?
Hugh had heard of this secret organization and knew that its members were extremely insane and cruel.
Soon, the gathering quieted down, and everyone looked at the "leader".
Odis smiled and said, "This requires extensive experience in intelligence work, as well as a wealth of knowledge in the occult."
"The 'full moon' condition in that commission particularly caught my attention. At the same time, I also received information that a conflict occurred within the 'Rose School' in the dock area of Backlund last week."
"Putting these things together, it becomes clear that the wealthy businessman Blair seems to be searching for traces of members of the 'Rose School,' so I suspect he may have been used or controlled by one of the members in the internal conflict of the 'Rose School.'"
At this point, someone immediately asked, "Why is the 'full moon' associated with the 'Rose School'?"
Odis smiled and said, "This information requires payment; the total value is 200 pounds."
Soon, many people participated in the transaction, including Hugh, and they quickly raised 200 pounds.